What has happened to the DLNA server, it will hardly play anything now. It used to play virtually anything. To start with it errored with any film which had subtitles and now it is only a few films it will play. What is going on ?
Thanks for the reply. Very informative, I may look down this route as an option.
In the mean time, FYI, the client is Plex running on my Sony blue-ray player. All the files i was trying to play, used to play fine with subtitles on this set up. Since I upgraded to the latest version of Plex DNLA server they have stopped working. The DLNA server /client now plays virtually nothing and if it has subtitles, then no chance. It used to be great, now it is pants. God knows what has been changed but it ain’t working. My Sony hasn’t had any upgrades for at least a year so i know it’s not that. I didn’t want to go to the extra hassle of having yet another piece of hardware, but if Plex can’t get it together then I may have no choice.
The files are 100% compatible with the recommended file types and encoding, so I’m at a loss. Any Ideas???
@Deomandinka said:
The files are 100% compatible with the recommended file types and encoding, so I’m at a loss. Any Ideas???
If you have subtitles enabled, that automatically triggers a transcode for the Plex DLNA server. To diagnose what is happening we would need to see your Plex Media Server.log and Plex DLNA server.log when attempting to playback one of the files that breaks playback.
Just a rough guess is that the transcode that is being triggered is failing (One recent common issue was encoding type of the subtitle file itself), but without the logs we couldn’t guess why.
Ok sacked it all off and went for the Rasplex option. Fantastic, would recommend it to anyone. Took mins to set up and worked first time straight from the box. Just follow the Rasplex install instructions, download Resplex remote for ya phone and Bobs your Uncle.
